To A. R. Wallace 2 January 1881
Summary
On land migration of plants. The case in Nature is striking but CD doubts that seeds of plants could be blown from mountains of Abyssinia to mountains of Madagascar.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 2 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12968 |
To H. A. D. Seymour 20 January 1881
Summary
Sends address of A. R. Wallace. Comments on Wallace’s pension.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Alfred Damer Seymour |
Date: | 20 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.579) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13018 |
To A. R. Wallace 12 July 1881
Summary
Will order Progress and poverty. Comments on ARW’s political interests and his own absorption in W. Graham’s The creed of science.
His sojourn at Ullswater: "life has become very wearisome to me".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 12 July 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13243 |
From A. R. Wallace 29 January 1881
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B152–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13033 |
To A. R. Wallace 10 January 1881
Summary
On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12997 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [February 1881]
Summary
Island life continues to stimulate: Wallace ignores effects of glaciers on alpine flora and generally exaggerates those of débâcles and wind dispersal. CD encourages JDH to prepare a geographical address including history of geographical distribution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Feb 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 509–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13067 |
To A. R. Wallace 23 November 1881
Summary
At Mrs Lyell’s request, passes on a spare copy of K. M. Lyell ed. 1881.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 23 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into Alfred Russel Wallace’s copy of K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 (L ARW 28)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13507F |
From A. R. Wallace 1 January 1881
Summary
ARW’s view of migration of plants from mountain to mountain gains support from case described in Nature [23 (1880): 125–6] by J. G. Baker. Identical species of alpine plants found in African mountains and Madagascar.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 271.6: a6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12964 |
From A. R. Wallace 8 January 1881
Summary
Appreciation of CD’s efforts in recommending him for pension. Asks about proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B150–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12994 |
From A. R. Wallace 18 October 1881
Summary
Thanks for book [Earthworms]. Asks whether leaf-mould is not formed by decay as well as by the agency of worms.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B156–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13413 |
To A. R. Wallace 7 January [1881]
Summary
Informs ARW of favourable reception by Gladstone of memorial respecting ARW’s services to science, and the establishment of a pension for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 7 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12985 |
To T. H. Huxley 7 January 1881
Summary
Success of the memorial for Wallace. Sends letter from Gladstone.
Congratulates THH on appointment as Inspector of Fisheries.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 7 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 356) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12986 |
From A. R. Wallace 9 July 1881
Summary
Enthusiasm for Henry George’s Progress and poverty. Considers it to rank with Adam Smith’s work. His own work on the land question [Land nationalisation (1882)].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B154–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13238 |
To A. B. Buckley 7 January [1881]
Summary
Good news from Gladstone [concerning pension for Wallace]. Duke of Argyll’s private note greatly influenced Gladstone.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
Date: | 7 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12988 |
To W. E. Darwin 31 January [1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13034 |
To G. H. Darwin 20 January [1881]
Summary
[Ernst Krause’s] letter to Nature ["Unconscious memory – Mr Samuel Butler", 23 (1881): 288] has been dispatched.
Gladstone has dated Wallace’s pension from last July, "which is splendid".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13019 |
To Grant Allen 2 January 1882
Summary
Thanks GA for his article ["The daisy’s pedigree", Cornhill Mag. 44 (1881): 168–81].
The evolutionary argument that petals are transformed stamens is "striking and apparently valid". Doubts petals are naturally yellow.
Wallace’s "generalization about much modified parts being splendidly coloured" is also dubious except as both are caused by sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Date: | 2 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13594 |
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- … R. Wallace, 23 July 1877 ). The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe ( Nordenskiöld 1881 , …
- … 1881 , pp. 479–533). Alfred Russel Wallace had been critical of CD’s theory of sexual selection and had presented various alternatives, such as protective mimicry and concealment; in males, he argued, bright colours were a sign of vitality, whereas females were often less conspicuous for the sake of protection (see A. R. …
To J. D. Hooker 12 August 1881
Summary
Responds to JDH on history of plant geography.
Opinion of Humboldt.
Origin of higher phanerogams.
Importance of the occurrence of south temperate forms in the Northern Hemisphere.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 524–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13288 |
To W. E. Gladstone 7 January 1881
Summary
CD expresses his great pleasure at WEG’s letter informing him that Wallace has been granted a pension.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
Date: | 7 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 44468: 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12987 |
From Anthony Rich 13 June 1881
Author: | Anthony Rich |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13202 |
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